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Plagued by Technical Debt - Anonymous employee Alpine Data Labs Employee Review

1.0
27 July 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Not much compared to the highly competitive bay area tech scene. This review is meant to be objective. It's a warning to anyone applying for an position here. I still have many friends who work here. There are lots of smart, hard working people here. Unfortunately, they're not listened to. This company has enormous potential. It needs a radical change to unlock it and grow: it needs to shed its old self to progress.

Cons

No one recognized and accepted how much technical debt really exists in the core intellectual property. To this day, several fundamentally flawed designs plague the product. There was no room to make any improvements and fix the big problems. Too many easily bruised egos. Also, management is unfortunately blind to this fatal flaw. "Just keep adding features, everything is okay, don't look into problems that aren't assigned to you!" is the mantra I heard over a dozen times.

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
17 Jan 2015
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Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

This company has provided one of the most amazing rides of my career. I've worked at quite a few companies, but I've been impressed with the team here. They move fast and are not afraid of taking on audacious goals. Sales and Marketing have out-executed the competition and Alpine is positioned really high in credibility with Gartner and others. Engineering has delivered 3 releases last year, including innovation on Spark and with R...and the team is cooking up a pretty amazing pipeline in their roadmap. The investors are super involved too. They often stop by company events and connect with each of us over drinks (pretty cool to get exposure to their work btw). Sure, there are tough patches at times but the caliber of customers we work with (large financials, telcos, manufacturing...) has been incredible.

Cons

It's a startup! You've got to have tolerance for ambiguity. You've got to be internally driven to win. If you're looking for a standard 9-5 job, this isn't the company. Everyone's got a lot on their plate and everyone drives hard. This isn't for everyone!

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